I'LL BE BACK SOON

Sorry to be gone so much this past week.

My In Home Show is Sat. and Sun. and we are doing our Christmas decorating and putting some of our regular things away to make room for the show items - what a job!

I'm doing the inside cleaning today and Doug is putting up garland on the fences and some of the other things...got two wreaths up so far! There will be 18 inch brick red stars in the center of each peak of the garlands.

Oh and he got my painted snowman window up right next to the door - we found it last month at the Wholesale Show and thought what a perfect greeting for our show!!!!



I have a huge project for my next post that I have been doing in stages and saving it.

I found something on the internet that I want to share...I LOVE IT! Hopefully tonight I will get it posted.

Wish I knew how when you insert a picture in the post that it wouldn't always load at the top....plus then there are tons of spaces that I have to delete - anyone help here????

Check back tonight to see if I got my special post on....you'll like it (well, I think you will...lol)

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WHATCHA WORKING ON WEDNESDAY

What a busy Whatcha Working On Wednesday.

From the time we got up until dinner tonight it was a constant!

I had Doug helping all he could too - what a guy…so supportive I tell ya.
While I did some sewing he put some of our bagged products in celo bags and put the bag toppers on and stuffed some more pocket hangings and then started the second tree in a box.

Close up of box (this is the smaller of the other one we did last week.

Oh and I got my shipment of fresh preserved Sweet Annie….OMGosh does it smell wonderful. There was a time I didn’t like the smell of it but it has really grown on me. Anyway I ordered it from Hammelman’s in OR….I got 10 bunches of it - the more you ordered the lower the price.
I’m using some of it in my hanging pockets and seed bags w/candles.

This afternoon I took some grungy cheesecloth that I purchased on Monday and hung them over the tops of my valances just to see if I would like the effect and actually liked what I did - never intended to keep the white ones up but Doug even thought it looked rather Primitive so we'll leave them there till after the home show.

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FREE MERCHANDISE!

Here it is....our

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Back in September I won a stencil from Becca of Folk Art From The Harbor and I ran out of time to get any boards made so I had our daughter in-law make them.

Today she brought 4 of them over for my approval before putting on the last and final touch - I guess the antiquing, anyway....I fell in love with them. So she's doing 2 of each, making that 8 for my Home Show! Bless her little heart!

So here's the ALMOST finished product:

THANKS BECCA!!!!!!!!!!!

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WHATCHA WORKING ON WEDNESDAY

This is my first WHATCHA WORKING ON WEDNESDAY so not sure what I'm really doing, plus it's probably the first Wednesday I have actually worked on something that I could take a picture of.

I covered two sets of mache stackable boxes with fabric I purchased at a rummage sale - I got tons of fabric for a smidgen!









Still have to let them dry a bit more then I can stack them and tie 'em up with twine! I'll post a picture later when they're finished.

Now here we have a bonus item....we purchased several sets of stackable boxes last Christmas for our home show and one of them had poor graphics on the center box so I called the company and they sent out a new set - I asked what I should do with the set I had - they said keep it or toss it.....WELL, IF THAT WASN'T A BARGAIN!

So this year we are using the largest one as a tree base - we used expanding foam to secure the 3' tree and will put excelsior around the base, add mini lights and walla....a beauty of a tree. I will post the picture of the final product later.

So what do you think I could put on it as an asking price?????






TIME IS RUNNING OUT GIRLS....
This month on my Website: http://www.kmprimitives.com/ you can enter our drawing for Two Holiday Candle Huggers of your choice.

All you have to do is find the hidden Icons and send me an e-mail at kmprimitives@yahoo.com telling me which pages you found them on and you will be entered.

Drawing will be early this month because of Thanksgiving and my Home Show so it will be on the 22nd of November so come on over to my website and look around.
GOOD LUCK AND HOPE TO SEE YOUR NAMES COME THROUGH MY E-MAIL!

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What a non-productive day or so it seemed. We did so much running around and I feel like I'm back to square one and need many catch up days but I did find some boards to make signs for my craft show and got a few other things.
Then I treated my husband and myself to the Olive Garden for lunch before coming back home.

I received an e-mail today from Caryn of Todays Primitive Home and I'm so impressed with it - they feature their best picks on the web/etsy.

Here's a brief description of their mission:

Please note this is NOT a solicitation for paid advertising.

Today’s Primitive Home is strictly editorial.

Items we display on our website to show our readers are our own personal favorites.

Simply put we pick ‘em because we like ‘em (so to speak). Our editorials are intended to be humorous and encourage our readers to visit TPH often to see our “Latest Picks”.

Readers are given the opportunity to view examples of our favorite Artists’ work and purchase featured or similar items directly from the Artist’s website/blog through the links provided for them in our editorials.

After two weeks, items appearing on our home page are categorized and moved to our “Prims We Loved” archives where readers may still view previously featured items and access links to the Artist’s website or blog.

Our Mission is to support the tradition of handcrafted American Folk Art and to encourage Internet shoppers to consider purchasing unique, handmade one-of-a-kind type items from American artists, as opposed to purchasing foreign mass-produced items.

They featured my 'TREES FOR SALE' runner a while back and I just loved the little story they put with it...so please go on over and check out their site...it's just so wonderful how they are helping all of us designers and crafters.
http://www.todaysprimitivehome.com/

Hop on over to Prim and Proper Folks Blog to sign up for this absolutely wonderful give away - plus she has such a great blog to read.

http://primandproperfolks.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-holiday-giveaway.html

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SUNDAYS PROJECT

New Header Picture Today!

Again today the headache! Will it never end....so I decided to start some put-together projects instead of sewing....I bought some wonderful pouches and filled them with some greens and a fabric stuffed candy cane....very Prim I think!

I only have three of them for my show so hopefully they will sell.



And to add to frustration my shift key is sticking and I'm forever getting lower case letters so have to keep going back and fixing which is time consuming let alone agrivating.

But I will prevail and overcome the shift key - I'm bigger than it right???

I also want to thank everyone for their wonderful comments and response to my Blogging. I never know just what I'm going to post and so it's a surprise to me as well!

Each day I get a step closer to getting things organized for my show - but the big part is deciding where everything is going - each year we have different products to display so the setups are somewhat different. Also, putting our regular stuff away so we can make room for products - we don't have much for storage space in our house - it's an early 50's Cape Cod and they weren't into storage closets in the 50's for some reason....so guess the basement gets it again.

Which reminds me....some of our things are still packed away from last years show. Guess if I didn't get them back out I didn't need or miss them. That's one way of clearing and weeding out.

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Please go visit Tonya at Old Country Creations http://www.oldecountrycreations.com/ because she has a deal for all of you!

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I FEEL CRAPPY

Happy Saturday everyone....well it's not a great day for me!

Yesterday was a rather odds and ends day, nothing really got accomplished, well nothing important anyway.

Here's what I posted on one of the forums I'm on - it's easier than retyping:


Morning Sunshines!!!Wish I felt like that statement.....here's the deal.....yesterday Doug and I got our flu shots, headed straight for Janesville for the Craft Show (small and not so worth the 1 hour drive), then went to Sam's Club and Michaels, then went to dinner.

Both of us immediately got headaches during dinner, got very tired and couldn't wait to get home....both took something for it, went to bed early and had the rotten feeling all night...I woke up at 4 still with the headache and upset stomach!

Sure don't know what hit us both like that. Couldn't be the shot I wouldn't think...never reacted before.

Anyway....the craft show (which I was supposed to be in but got the information way too late to be able to do it) was on the small side, not very festive like last years...well we stayed for a short while and HAD to purchase something - we knew all the vendors so felt obligated.

I bought a long basket stuffed with a Santa, Tree and Star....kind of cute and then a stuffed mouse pulling a baby mouse on a sled....it's okay but not my favorite thing but Doug liked it, and a snowman riding a crow!




Hope we feel better by 3 this afternoon because we're supposed to go to a play with our son and family to see Stuart Little.

So then even though I feel like...ROTTEN....head is still pounding, we went to get some groceries, lunch and then to one of our favorite little shops in the next little town which by the way SHE CARRIES SOME OF MY PRODUCTS!!!!!!!! Yippppeeeee.

Doug finished the yard work yesterday and cut down my Catmint and Lavendar and we hated throwing it out so put it in a crock - I will keep it till it falls apart...

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